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Graphics card: Status update on the ZZ9000 (14. Nov. 2021)
In 2018 the ZZ9000 as the successor of the FPGA-based and open source Zorro II/III compatible graphics board MNT VA2000 could be preordered. The ZZ9000 combines a RTG graphics board, AGA scandoubler and network card equipped with two 666-MHz-ARM coprocess...

Tools for ARexx development: RxEnv V1.2 (13. Nov. 2021)
At the beginning of September we reported on Carl Svensson's project RxEnv which is supposed to add a 'REPL' to the ARexx development environment. REPL is for 'Read, Eval, Print, Loop' and offers the option to enter any ARexx code in an interactive wi...

8-BitArcade-Adventure: "PETSCII Robots" announced for Amiga (12. Nov. 2021)
PETSCII Robots by popular Texas youtuber 8 Bit Guy is an arcade adventure game originally developed for the Commodore PET, whose in-game "graphics" consisted entirely of PETSCII characters (video). Since then the commercially distributed title has be...

Scene World Podcast Episode #127 - Nicola and Anthony Caulfield (11. Nov. 2021)
In their new podcast episode, Jörg Dröge and Arthur Heller talk to Nicola and Anthony Caulfield, a filmmaking team from London. They are responsible for documentaries like "From Bedrooms To Billions" and its sequel "The Amiga Years" . Their current projec...

Anniversary: 20 years AmigaSource (11. Nov. 2021)
For 20 years now Scott Pistorino collects on his site AmigaSource all information around the Amiga. On October 19, 2001 he introduced his project on amiga-news.de. Beside several interviews with Ben Hermans or Fleecy Moss from 2002 there are numerous cate...

New preview video: Souverän Soccer (09. Nov. 2021)
Daniel 'Daytona675x' Müßener (Wings Remastered, MiniGL4GL4ES, Tower 57) is working on a soccer game with 3D view called "Souverän Soccer" (amiga-news.de reported) which is supposed to run on unaccelerated Amiga 1200 and CD32 with 50 fps. Meanwhile the ...

AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.5.1 (07. Nov. 2021)
MediaVault is an open source application for AmigaOS 4 which can be used to discover online radio stations and, since Version 1.4.0, also to listen to podcasts. An external player like the free AmigaAmp or the commercial Emotion and the jansson.library v2...

Little review: Password management "PassPocket" (07. Nov. 2021)
Yesterday version 1.1 of the password manager 'PasspPocket' was released in the OS4Depot. However, the archive includes versions for both AmigaOS 3 and 4. We took a look at the version for AmigaOS 4 and daringly left the instructions (in German and Englis...

New downloads on amigaland.de (07. Nov. 2021)
At amigaland.de Mirko Engelhardt offers software that had been commercial before with the permission of the respective copyright owners. Latest additions include games published by Software 2000 or its branch Magic Soft: Backgammon, Charly and Ditris....

ModExplorer 3.8 FE for all Amiga systems (06. Nov. 2021)
As author Jörg Renkert writes on his homepage, the point of ModPlayer is not to be just another audio player (there are already enough good ones) with which to listen to your music archives. Instead, it offers users mods that they have never heard before....

Print magazine: Amiga Future, issue 153 (05. Nov. 2021)
The English and German editions of Amiga Future issue 153 (November/December 2021) has been published yesterday and can be ordered from Amiga dealers or directly from the editorial office. This issue's topics include an interview with Frank Röchter and a ...

Self-made project: Amiga 2000/3000 keyboard (04. Nov. 2021)
The developer 'grahamshaw1972' has started the project 'A2000 Serotina' which is a build it yourself Open Source hardware mechanical keyboard for the Amiga A2000 and A3000 computers. Features are: Uses standard PC keyboard parts, case + keycaps Allo...

Shoot'em up: Third demo version of Jackal (04. Nov. 2021)
NeesoGames had recently announced an amiga version of the game Jackal originally published by Konami in 1986 and had already released two demo versions. Now a third demo version of the game created with the Scorpion Engine is available. The changes: ...

AmigaOS 4: FTP-Server 'ZitaFTP' 1.30 (04. Nov. 2021)
Hans de Ruiter has released version 1.30 of his commercial FTP server 'ZitaFTP'. He wrote: "I have a new ZitaFTP Server update for you. This one has a major new feature that's almost invisible (and that's by design). The new feature is: countermeasures...

Encryption protocol: AmiSSL 4.11 (AmigaOS 3/4) (31. Oct. 2021)
Version 4.11 of the open source encryption protocol AmiSSL provides the latest root-certificates as well as some bug fixes. Detailed changelog: Updated root certificates to latest Mozilla-based bundle provided by https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html d...

OS4Depot uploads until 30.10.2021 (31. Oct. 2021)
The following files have been added until 30.10.2021 to OS4Depot: libcurl.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 The multiprotocol file transfer ... curl.lha net/mis 2Mb 4.1 Command line URL file transfer mediavault.lha net/...

Trademark protection: Cloanto withdraws opposition against Intellivision's Amico (31. Oct. 2021)
After being forced by third party to defend the Amiga trademarks against Intellivision's "Amico" game console, Cloanto now filed a motion to withdraw their opposition at USPTO with prejudice, meaning that the opposition is replaced by a separate agreement...

Game Construction Kit: RedPill 0.9.2 (31. Oct. 2021)
RedPill, developed by Carlos Peris, is a game construction kit written in Amiblitz 3.8, which allows the development of games from various genres (see short tests of two Redpill games). RedPill is compatible with AGA and ECS, the "player" for playing the ...

AmigaOS 4: MediaVault 1.5.0 (30. Oct. 2021)
MediaVault is an open source application for AmigaOS 4 which can be used to discover online radio stations and, since Version 1.4.0, also to listen to podcasts. An external player like AmigaAmp and the jansson.library v2.12.1 are required. About the lates...

AmigaOS 4: Comparison of video players (Polish) (30. Oct. 2021)
In a detailed article - Polish original bzw. automatic translation - the author 'MUFA' has reviewed the different video players available for AmigaOS 4: Tested with an AmigaOne X1000 equipped with a Radeon HD R9 270 graphics card and an AmigaOne X5000 equ...